Perennial, shortly white-tomentose herb with the branches coming out of a woody base. Leaves opposite or with whorled-appearance, narrowly linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 12 mm long, revolute-margined, mucronate; stipules scarious, ovate to narrowly ovate, acuminate. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal cymes, shortly pedicellate; bracts similar to stipules. Sepals 5, ovate, up to 2 mm long, scarious-margined. Petals 5, ovate, about 1 mm long, acute. Capsule ovoid, about as long as the sepals.